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Thanks guys. I was using Float instead of Decimal because I was under the impression that Ruby on Rails didn't do Decimal types (I'm going to look into this, though, because I may have made this up in my head)

float and decimal are both returned to the host langauge in a format the host language can understand; it's the responsibility of the host language's mysql driver to make sure this happens transparently. i have no doubt that ruby can handle a decimal data type, probably as a float.